[M3devel] release status [was something else]

[Tony Hosking]

I think this would be a huge mess.
Not worth pursuing.


On 16 Mar 2010, at 11:51, Jay K wrote:

> The "experiment" would also probably have to grow ADDRESS.
> And then for interop I'd have to say, like HANDLE = BITS 32 FOR ADDRESS, if that is allowed.
> And then..it gets confused..where would I get "32" from?
>  Compiler would have to truncate/extend pointers. Not sure it is willing to.
>  
> Another good theoretical route is, indeed widen all the pointers, and then #ifdef the C code to take UINT64 and cast to pointers..and convert structs back/forth..but for Win32 we generally don't have such C code as we do for Posix. Darn.
> I'll think about it more later but maybe it doesn't really work out.
>  
>  
>  - Jay
> 
>  
> > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:28:42 +0100
> > From: wagner at elegosoft.com
> > To: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> > CC: jay.krell at cornell.edu; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > Subject: Re: [M3devel] release status [was something else]
> > 
> > Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:
> > 
> > > Ah, yes, one issue about bringing over m3front changes is that it 
> > > also includes the atomics support. I don't think we want to do this 
> > > in this release.
> > > So, this argues that we hold off on releasing the NT386 64-bit 
> > > LONGINT support for now.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > 
> > It's OK by me. You have convinced me that there are too many dependencies
> > and implications.
> > 
> > We should be able to start a new RC build in a few days then.
> > 
> > Olaf
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